Past Faceoffs

Fnatic vs. Na’Vi at ELeague Predictions

This match is super risky and I’m completely lost, I’ve been thinking about it for the entire day and honestly I am not confident at all here, normally I would go with fnatic no matter what, they have a great record against Na’Vi, and correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure Na’Vi have never won a single BO3/BO5 against fnatic with the current lineups, but the one thing that scares me the most is fnatic’s hours played in the last two weeks, krimz is on 5 hours and flusha on 10, but it happened many times before and fnatic did just fine.

Na’Vi have been playing way more than fnatic lately, however their results are not nearly as good as fnatic’s though, Na’Vi dropped a map against Echo Fox and mousesports int he group stage of ELEAGUE, and then Cloud9 almost knocked them out in the quarterfinal, basically Na’Vi should have lost 0-2 but they got a bit lucky and won the first map 19-15 in overtime, got wrecked on dust2 and then barely won 16-14 on cobblestone, so Na’Vi played bad against Cloud9 and shouldn’t even be in the semis.

At this point I’m not even sure what to do, but fnatic is a team that won me a ton of money and they are way more consistent than Na’Vi, so I’m gonna follow the gut feeling here and put my trust on fnatic again.

Conclusion

Alrighty so a actually decent match here, well sort of. The thing here is that both of these sides have been linked with roster changes right after E-League, which if you haven’t guessed, this is E-League so that’s that 😛 Neither team has been looking too hot and while it seems hour wise on steam in the past 2 weeks Na’Vi is doing decent, Fnatic are just nowhere to be found lol. Krimz has 5 hours on CSGO and Flusha has 10 in the past 2 weeks, like 5, that is like so low for a pro. The others aren’t doing good either, 20 hours in the past 2 weeks, really low and worrying here. For Fnatic the hours kinda confirm that something isn’t right, but for Na’Vi it is Zeus’ twitter. Now, historically Fnatic are obviously the better team and historically Na’Vi has had a very tough time against Fnatic, however I recall a interview by Zeus a few months ago saying that they have been working on playing with Fnatic in particular and have been getting good results in scrims. Things have of course changed since then and what not, however still something to keep in mind. This is a really tough one to call because either team can easily win this, like I said both not in the best shape but both know eachother very well and have played countless of times and know what is up, so it might just be a case of who shows up and who wants it more. The Fnatic hours are off putting me more than a potential S1mple addition to Na’Vi. Overall, 50-50 game for me here honestly, sure historically Fnatic has this but what does that matter if they will potentially just be super out of it and rusty. Go low underdog.

Hard to call game or well maybe calling it is not that hard but who to bet on is. I do think that fnatic will take this game, the head to head record is really in favour for fnatic and Navi have never beaten them in a BO3 or a BO5 and I think the chances are small here. The only issue with both sides right now is the rumours of roster changes in both sides. How this will affect each team is hard to tell right now and we won’t really know til the match kicks off. The maps are out which are Cobble, Train and D2. Two of the best upset maps and Train, which is Navi’s playground. I can see fnatic winning this 2-1, and I can also see Navi taking it 2-0 but they will really need to take Cobble as I feel their chances on D2 are smaller. Overall I favour fnatic with these maps to take it and will put my money on them.